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可持续投资方兴未艾，2023年资产总值已增至3万亿美元；可持续基金的表现胜过2022年，惟在不同资产类别却表现不一。 据美国金融服务公司晨星（Morningstar）去年12月发表的报告，若与传统基金相比，可持续基金略见逊色。

Chen Zhiwu, chair professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong, compared China’s new housing strategy to the way Beijing uses its so-called “national team” of state funds to buy equities to try to prop up the depressed stock market. Such efforts have often failed to sustainably bolster the market. Using government money to buy up distressed real estate would be no different, he said, given the country’s demographic challenges and supply glut. Government interventions could also raise uncomfortable questions about social fairness, he said. Buying properties from existing homeowners or developers when the market is weak would amount to using national resources to subsidize owners who have the flexibility to sell, when others don’t, he said. “It turns into an issue of wealth distribution,” he said. “Not everyone in China owns multiple apartments, nor are they ready to sell.”

近10年来，香港一直面对分间楼宇单位（俗称「劏房」）激增的困局。 穷等人家蜗居在拥挤不堪的非人居住环境，此等影像令人心痛，亦有损香港声誉

Chen Zhiwu, chair professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong, said “The biggest deflation factor is the high sense of insecurity among businesspeople, private firms and officials”. He said “No one feels really secure about tomorrow.”

经过两次大战的生灵涂炭，欧洲人终于化干戈为玉帛，把精力用在经济合作，一来有利于发展经济，二来防止再度战争。数十年来，欧洲的经济整合缓慢但稳步发展，从五十年代只有6个成员的欧洲共同市场，发展到今天27个成员的欧盟，而合作的内容，从开始时的煤炭和钢铁，到今天20个成员共用的欧罗。

根据环境保护署公布的2022年香港固体废物监察报告，本港每天人均垃圾产量为1.51公斤，不仅高于台湾台北的0.37公斤【注1】和日本东京的0.89公斤【注2】，也没有达到特区政府2013年提出的10年减废目标（0.8公斤以下）。作为应对措施之一，政府计划今年8月1日全面实行城市固体垃圾按量征费。

环境、社会及管治（Environmental, Social, and Governance，简称ESG）近年好似雨后春笋般，已经无处不在。当众人还分不清这3个字母顺序的时候，ESG早已牵动无数跨国公司的重大决策，也深刻影响各国政府的监管决定。

Chen Zhiwu, chair professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong, said restoring confidence would be key, but that it would take much more than just talk. “The really useful and meaningful way to boost household and private business confidence is to depoliticise both economic policymaking and the business sector,” he said. “Otherwise, the ‘3D’ challenges – deflation, debt and deleveraging – will continue.”

Chen Zhiwu, a chair professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong, said headwinds such as risks of a global recession and US-China tensions would continue to exert “extraordinary pressures” on China’s hi-tech push. “The US tech war has largely thwarted Chinese tech companies’ [initial public offering] opportunities. Even if these tech manufacturers succeed in going public, the potential sanctions would affect their market valuations,” said Chen. He added China’s weak economic momentum is also weighing on the market’s overall willingness to invest, with hi-tech manufacturing just one element. “The rapid development of hi-tech industries over the past 20 years has provided China with a massive boost to its economic boom, this was partly due to the impact of a stable external environment on investor confidence,” Chen said.